About Transportation You

Transportation YOU is a hands-on, interactive, mentoring program that offers young girls ages 13-18 an introduction to a wide variety of transportation careers. Through the program, WTS chapters work to make a difference in the lives of young girls by offering programs and activities that will spark their interest in all modes of transportation and encourage them to take courses in math, science, and technology, which are the stepping stones to exciting careers that can change the face of the transportation industry.
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The Greater Chicago chapter of WTS International hosted a Transportation YOU event on a Saturday morning in partnership with Chicago Public Schools at the WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff Chicago offices. Twenty motivated girls attended the event and embraced the opportunity to learn about leadership and public speaking. Author and Coach Cyndi Maxey presented “Speak Up and Stand [Read On]

A group of 12 middle school and high school girls had the opportunity to meet Sandra Stepney, North Carolina Department of Transportation’s (NCDOT) Rail Division’s Planning and Development Branch Manager at WTS International’s NC Triangle Chapter’s third Transportation YOU event at the Institute for Transportation Research and Education at North Carolina State University’s Centennial Campus [Read On]

Curious about the powerful blasts that rockets create? Rockets get their forward push from a reaction engine so they thrust themselves forward by ejecting mass (that shoots backward) at high speed from their rear end. Investigate how the air pressure you create in a bottle rocket before launching changes the maximum height it reaches once launched by doing [Read On]

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Fun Facts!

In March 1996, NASA astronaut Shannon Lucid visited the Russian Mir aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-76 mission. She was selected to perform a variety of science experiments before … [Read More...]